At the company, we are dedicated to staying ahead of the curve by embracing the latest technologies and strategies to streamline integration processes and enhance infrastructure efficiency. As a Solutions Architect, you will architect, design, and communicate a system's high-level structural and behavioral aspects, enabling and guiding the design and development of integrated solutions that meet current and future business needs, in alignment with corporate IT standards and architecture guiding principles. This necessitates engagement throughout the lifecycle of projects by taking full responsibility for the solution architecture.
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In this role, you will:
- Develop optimal, fit-for-purpose, and aligned IT architecture solutions that meet customer requirements. Ensure architecture is robust and conforms to corporate IT standards and roadmaps.
- Develop Enterprise Architecture standards and guidelines in the information, application, and technology domains.
- Continuously monitor industry trends, identify, and evaluate relevant technologies and tools, and showcase business value by executing Proof of Concepts.
- Establish policy, guidelines, and strategy for selecting system components and their designs.
- Guide, mentor, and motivate development team members in adopting good engineering practices, tools, and techniques throughout the development process.
- Conduct architecture reviews of vendor products and other critical production applications with Software Engineering development teams.
- Develop logical infrastructure solutions in alignment with the technology standards.
- Collaborate closely with Manager Enterprise Architects to ensure alignment of information, application, and technology architecture to the overall architecture principles and guidelines.
- Own, manage, and maintain the architecture roadmap and runways of small to medium-sized initiatives, products, environments, and/or platforms.
- Drive architecture decisions and be accountable for their implications regarding solution costs, delivery schedules, application complexity, technical debt, and overall solution performance.
Qualifications & Experience
To be considered for the role you must meet the following requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or an equivalent IT-related discipline.
- 5+ years of experience in designing and developing large-scale, complex, distributed, mission-critical applications in heterogeneous environments.
- Understanding of Architecture Methods, Principles and Patterns (OOAD, GoF, SOA, etc.).
- Familiarity with architecture and design artifacts (Archimate, C4, UML models, etc.).
- Understanding of agile software development methodologies such as SCRUM and Scaled Agile.
- Good understanding and experience in the airline domain is preferred.
Salary & Benefits
Join us in Dubai and enjoy an attractive tax-free salary and travel benefits that are exclusive to our industry, including discounts on flights and hotel stays around the world. Find out what it’s like to live and work in our fast-paced, cosmopolitan home city in the Dubai Lifestyle section of our website.
